Presentation by: Shahab Ali, Alexis King, Brittany Jones Ain’t I a Woman Speaker
Sojourner Truth was the speaker.
Gave the speech in Akron, Ohio in 1851
Truth was born in slavery and never got the chance to bond with her children and siblings since most were sold into slavery
She was a well know abolitionist and women’s rights activists
She was characterized by her large stature and powerful voice
Purpose
Demand that she be treated with as much respect as other women (Caucasian)
Show that women have strength and deserve equal rights as a man.
Audience
The speech was given to the men and women gathered for the Women’s convention.
Medium
The speech was communicated verbally to the audience.
The speech was given in Truth’s heavy original dialect, which made her speech more powerful
The whole speech is bounced of the comments of a man who claimed women are too weak to have as much rights as a man.
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical question- “Ain’t I a woman”
Allusion- Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him." (5th paragraph)
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone," (6th paragraph)
Repetition- And Ain't I a Woman?
Appeals
Logos- “"Where did your Chirst come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with him!" (4th paragraph)
Ethos- Sojourner Truth was a major figure in Women’s rights and abolition of slavery.
Pathos- I have born 13 children and seen most all sold into slavery and when I cried out a mother's grief none but Jesus heard me...and ain't I a woman?" (2nd paragraph)
Susan B. Anthony Speaker · Susan B. Anthony was the speaker · Born in 1820 · Speech was given in 1873 before the court after being convicted of voting · Extremely intelligent as she learned how to read and write at the age of 3 · Traveled thousands of miles in Europe and America for 45 years delivering some 75-100 speeches a year for the advancement of the cause. Purpose
· The speech was intended to persuade the court that she had no guilt for her actions because by voting in the 1872 election she fulfilled her right of suffrage as an American citizen. Also, to motivate the court that women are citizens and by the U.S constitution are entitled to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Audience
· The speech is presented to the court · Stump Speech throughout 29 postal districts in Monroe County, New
York
Medium · Anthony presented this speech in defense of her “supposed” crime · She used her high profile arrest to spread her message to a larger audience
Rhetorical Devices · Allusion- "The Preamble of the Federal Constitution says" · Rhetorical Question- "Are women persons?" · Anaphora- “ To them…..To them” ( Paragraph 6) · Cataloguing- “which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over mother and sisters, the wife and daughters” Appeals · Logos- primarily used
o "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union." (3rd paragraph)
o It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constituion, beyond the power of any state to deny." (1st paragraph).
o Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office. (6th paragraph) · Ethos- Susan B. Anthony was a high profile women’s right activist she did all she could to advance the cause and that’s what made her credible. · Pathos- "It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons , the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household."
Course Concepts- Both of these speeches display the desire for the American Dream of Freedom and equality.
Ain’t I a Woman
Speaker
- Sojourner Truth was the speaker.
- Gave the speech in Akron, Ohio in 1851
- Truth was born in slavery and never got the chance to bond with her children and siblings since most were sold into slavery
- She was a well know abolitionist and women’s rights activists
- She was characterized by her large stature and powerful voice
Purpose- Demand that she be treated with as much respect as other women (Caucasian)
- Show that women have strength and deserve equal rights as a man.
Audience- The speech was given to the men and women gathered for the Women’s convention.
Medium- The speech was communicated verbally to the audience.
- The speech was given in Truth’s heavy original dialect, which made her speech more powerful
- The whole speech is bounced of the comments of a man who claimed women are too weak to have as much rights as a man.
Rhetorical Devices- Rhetorical question- “Ain’t I a woman”
- Allusion- Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him." (5th paragraph)
- "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone," (6th paragraph)
- Repetition- And Ain't I a Woman?
AppealsSusan B. Anthony
Speaker
· Susan B. Anthony was the speaker
· Born in 1820
· Speech was given in 1873 before the court after being convicted of voting
· Extremely intelligent as she learned how to read and write at the age of 3
· Traveled thousands of miles in Europe and America for 45 years delivering some 75-100 speeches a year for the advancement of the cause.
Purpose
· The speech was intended to persuade the court that she had no guilt for her actions because by voting in the 1872 election she fulfilled her right of suffrage as an American citizen. Also, to motivate the court that women are citizens and by the U.S constitution are entitled to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Audience
· The speech is presented to the court
· Stump Speech throughout 29 postal districts in Monroe County, New
York
Medium
· Anthony presented this speech in defense of her “supposed” crime
· She used her high profile arrest to spread her message to a larger audience
Rhetorical Devices
· Allusion- "The Preamble of the Federal Constitution says"
· Rhetorical Question- "Are women persons?"
· Anaphora- “ To them…..To them” ( Paragraph 6)
· Cataloguing- “which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over mother and sisters, the wife and daughters”
Appeals
· Logos- primarily used
o "It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union." (3rd paragraph)
o It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constituion, beyond the power of any state to deny." (1st paragraph).
o Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office. (6th paragraph)
· Ethos- Susan B. Anthony was a high profile women’s right activist she did all she could to advance the cause and that’s what made her credible.
· Pathos- "It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons , the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household."
Course Concepts- Both of these speeches display the desire for the American Dream of Freedom and equality.